TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl
TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl
TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl
TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl
TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl
TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl

TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl

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Label: Paradise of Bachelors SKU: 19061 Catalogue ID: POB066LP Format: Vinyl
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TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl

TERRY ALLEN AND THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Bloodlines - LP - Vinyl

€29.99

 

LP - Black Vinyl. Includes a Gatefold Jacket and Inner Sleeve with restored, new, and Alternate Art and Photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen; an insert with Lyrics & Original Notes.

The first-ever vinyl reissue of Allen’s manifold, moving fourth album, remastered from the original analogue tapes.

On his fourth album, acclaimed songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen contemplates kinship the ways sex and violence stitch and sever the ties of family, faith, and society with skewering satire and affection alike. Bloodlines compiles thematically related but disparate recordings from miscellaneous sources both theatrical and historical: two songs written for plays; two full-band reprises of selections from Juarez; the irreverent hellfire-hitchhiker-on-highway ballad “Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy” (featuring Joe Ely); and the poignant eponymous ode to the arteries of ancestry and landscape (the debut recording of eight year-old Natalie Maines, later covered by Lucinda Williams).

Since 1970, when they met in Allen’s studio in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, one of songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s great foils and friends was the sometimes cantankerous but always brilliant art critic and writer Dave Hickey, with whom he sparred on topics musical, visual, and beyond (and to whom this reissue is dedicated in memoriam, in the wake of his passing in 2021.) Hickey, a fellow Texan paddling against the currents of the hermetic New York centric art world, was an accomplished songwriter in his own right, and he and Terry pushed each other to refine their respective practices. In 1983, the two were thick as thieves brothers in blood and Hickey’s wry but big-hearted presence haunts the history and periphery of Bloodlines, the album Terry released in June of that year.

In a 1984 review of Bloodlines, the L.A. Herald Examiner called Allen “one of the most compelling American songwriters working today … making the most unique art-pop of our time,” elsewhere comparing him not only to Moon Mullican and Jerry Lee Lewis, but also to the Velvet Underground and Philip Glass (probably the first time that unlikely quartet ever appeared together in one sentence). In 1983, against all odds, such sentiments were growing in underground prominence, as Allen’s records gained a fanatical word-of-mouth following they weren’t easy to find in those days. Recorded piecemeal at Caldwell Studios in Lubbock, in sessions spanning August 1982 through January 1983, Terry self-released it, like all his previous records, on his own Fate Records imprint.

Tracklist:

 A1. Bloodlines (I)
A2. Gimme A Ride To Heaven Boy
A3. Cantina Carlotta
A4. Ourland
A5. Oh Hally Lou

B1. Oh What A Dangerous Life
B2. Manhattan Bluebird
B3. There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunny Southern California
B4. Bloodlines (II)